Republican Science Quiz -- Thursday Edition

Given that George W. Bush was pushing the "Intelligent Design" stuff earlier in the week and James Dobson was comparing stem-cell research to Nazi science experiments, I thought I would work up another GOP science quiz. All real answers are "C". All Republican answers are "D". (And all mistakes are my own)

Here's to keeping schoolkids (especially in Kansas) stupid and totally unprepared for life in the 21st century.

What organization is credited with inventing the microprocessor?

A. IBM
B. General Electric
C. Intel Corporation
D. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

What event likely caused dinosaurs to become extinct roughly 65 million years ago?

A. Tidal wave
B. Disease
C. A comet impacting the Earth
D. Gay-pride parade

What physicist is credited with advancing the understanding of atomic structure?

A. Max Planck
B. Albert Einstein
C. Niels Bohr
D. Ronald Reagan

What is Newton's Second Law?

A. Momentum is conserved.
B. Work = Force x Distance
C. The acceleration of an object at constant mass is proportional to the resultant force acting upon it.
D. Liberals won't defend America without first getting approval from France.

What was the first Apollo 11 landing site?

A. The Aitken basin
B. Rima Sirsalis
C. The Sea of Tranquility
D. A sound stage in Roswell, New Mexico

Who created the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements?

A. Pierre Curie
B. Otto Hahn
C. Dmitri Mendeleev
D. Terri Schiavo

Global warming is most likely caused by what?

A. The Earth's axis of tilt
B. The Moon's gravity
C. Greenhouse gas emissions
d. The AIDS quilt

What were Alexander Graham Bell's first words spoken via telephone?

A. "Hello?"
B. "Eurkea! I have found it."
c. "Watson, come here. I need you."
D. "Freedom is on the march."

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is associated with what institution?

A. Stanford
B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
C. California Institute of Technology
D. Bob Jones Univeristy